FILIPINO BOX SPRING HOG TOM WAITS
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Well I hung on to Mary's stump, I danced with a soldiers glee
Em D
With a rum-soaked crook, and a big fat laugh, I spent my last dollar on thee
Em D
I saw Bill Bones, gave him a yell, Kehoe spiked the nog
Em
With a chain link fence and a scrap-iron jaw
D Em
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Ho-o-o-g
Spider rolled in from Hollister Burn on a one-eyed, stolen mare
Donned himself with the chicken fat, sawin' on a jawbone violin there
Kathleen was sitten down in little Red's recovery room, In her criminal underwear bra
I was naked to the waist with my fierce black hound, and I'm
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Ho-o-o-g
Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road, fill it with madrone and bay
Smells like hell and the neighbours complain, don't give a hoot what they sayyyy
You gotta slap that hog.....
Roll him over twice.....
Baste him with a sweeping broom
You gotta swat them flies, and chain up the dogs
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Ho-o-o-g
Rattlesnake piccatta with grapes and figs, Old Brown Betty with a yellow wig
'Tain't the mince-meat filigreeee, and it ain't the turley-neck stew
And it ain't them bruleed ochra seeds, tho' she made them special for you
Worse won a prize for the bottom-black pie, the beans got thrown to the dawgs,
Je-he-sius Christ, I can always make room
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cooking up a Filipino Box Spring Ho-o-o-g
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The above is solely MY INTERPRETATION of this great song, in a format aimed at learning guitarists.
No attempt has been made to copy or reproduce the artist's or publisher's sheet music for the song,
if such exists.
It can be used for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. To play the song as it should be played, you should
purchase the official sheetmusic for the song. You should also purchase and listen to the song to learn
the rhythm and timing of the song - this is essential if you wish to play the song with any degree of accuracy
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